Improved combined seeder and cultivator



waited tatw J. A. HALL, or RALEIGHQINDIANA.

Lamas Param: Na. 98,956, aataz January 18,1870.'

IMPROVED COMBINED SEEDER AND CULTIVATOR.

,The Schedule referred to in these Lettera' PatentA and making part ofthe sama.

To 'all whom 'it may c'oncern:

Be it known that I, J. A. HALL, of Raleigh, in the county of Rush, andState of Indiana, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements inCombined Seeder and Cultvator; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, Vand exact description thereof, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of referencemarked thereon, which form a part of this speoiica'tion. 4

The nature of my invention consists in the construction and generalarrangement of a. combined planter and cultivator, as will behereinafter fully set forth.

rIn order to enable others skilled in the art to which my inventionappertains, to make and use the same, I will now proceed to describe itsconstruction and operation, referring to the annexed drawings,in which-Figure l is a longitudinal vertical section, and

Figure 2, a rear elevation of my machine.

A A represent the wheels, mounted upon the outer ends of theaXle-tree-B, which is made in sections, and extended, leaving a spacebetween the inner end of the two sections, which are secured toa beam,C, placed on their upper side.

Upon the upper side of the beam C, is secured a frame, D, which, in rearof said beam, supports a box, E, having three hoppers and grain-boxes GG, formed in it, one at the centre and one at each end.

Through the entire length of thebox E, runs a shaft, a, which, undereach of the hoppels G, lis provided with wings or anges b, to carry thecorn down as the shaft revolves.. A brushor scraper, attached Within thebox, prevents more than the desired quantity from passing at eachrevolution ofthe shaft a.

The shaft is revolved by means of a belt, (Z, cornm'unioating motion toapulley, e, upon the shaft, from a roller, j; turned by a crank, g, saidroller f being pivoted between standards H H, upon the frame D.

At each end of' the axle B, and'in the centre ofthe beam C, is -hinged afurrow-plow, I, said plows being directly under and forward of thehoppers IG G, and V the corn is conducted, through Vtubes h h, into theground directly in rear of said plows I I.

At each inner end of the axle B, is hinged a cultivator-plow, J,'and onthe front side of the beam O, are hinged two other similar ploWs, eachpair of said pious-being connected'by a bent rod, i.

All the furrow-plows II, and one4 of each pair of cultivator-plows J,are connected, by chains fm m, to a bar, K, hinged upon the front end ofthe frame D, and turned by a lever, L, so as to raise the plows out ofthe ground when desired.

To the side of the frame D, is pivoted another lever, M, which isconnected with the front pair of cultivat orplows, so that they may beraised independent of the other, when so desired.

Having thus fully described my invention,

What I claim as new, and desirev to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. The arrangement of the shaft a, wings or ilanges l b b, pulley e,belt d, roller j, and crank g, substantially as shown and described.

2.- The combination of the furrow-plows I I, cultivator-plows J J, barK, lever L, and the droppingrnechanism herein described, allsubstantially as speci- In testimony that I claim the foregoing as myown, I ax my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

J. A. HALL. Witnesses:

WILSON T. JACKSON, S1DNEY LA RUE.

